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Here’s another great piece from Michael Totten, in which he gets to the bottom of The Truth About Russia in Georgia. TBILISI, GEORGIA – Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of ...
The Russian military has withdrawn a large part of its occupying forces in Georgia, in an apparent step back from the brink of a wider conflict. GORI, Georgia, Aug. 22 — Russia pulled troops and armored vehicles out of vast swaths of seized territory and ended its 10-day occupation ...
Michael Totten has filed a Report from Tbilisi at City Journal. Senator John McCain may have overstated things a bit when, shortly after the war started, he said, “We are all Georgians now.” But apparently even rank-and-file Russian soldiers view the Georgians and Americans as allies. Likewise, these simple ...
Via Drudge Report: Russia warns of response to US missile shield. MOSCOW (AP) - Russia says its response to the further development of a U.S. missile shield in Poland will go beyond diplomacy. Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying the U.S. missile shield plans are clearly aimed at ...
LGF, Russia, Georgia, South Ossetia, Poland, Missile Defense
The Russian government continues issuing statements about “pulling back” from Georgia, but the Russian military is digging in. SACHKHERE, Georgia (AP) — Russian forces on Wednesday built a sentry post just 30 miles from the Georgian capital, appearing to dig in to positions deep inside Georgia despite pledges to ...
Russia has taken a group of Georgian troops prisoner in the port city of Poti, and seized American Humvees. POTI, Georgia - Russian soldiers took about 20 Georgian troops prisoner at a key Black Sea port in western Georgia on Tuesday, blindfolding them and holding them at gunpoint, and ...
The US has called a meeting of NATO’s 26 foreign ministers to discuss the Georgia crisis. BRUSSELS (AFP) - Russian and US officials ramped up the diplomatic war of words on Monday on the eve of an extraordinary meeting of EU foreign ministers to discuss the crisis in Georgia. ...
There may be a “cease-fire” between Georgia and Russia, but Russia is moving missile launchers into South Ossetia. WASHINGTON — Even as Russia pledged to begin withdrawing its forces from neighboring Georgia on Monday, American officials said the Russian military had been moving launchers for short-range ballistic missiles into ...
The cease-fire agreement with Georgia is holding for now, but the Russian military is in no hurry to leave. Stuart Koehl has an interesting piece on possible military options for Georgia: The Pain Game. This invasion has probably eaten deeply into Russian operations and maintenance funding, to say nothing ...
John Bolton analyzes the Russian invasion of Georgia: After Russia’s invasion of Georgia, what now for the West? As bad as the bloodying of Georgia is, the broader consequences are worse. The United States fiddled while Georgia burned, not even reaching the right rhetorical level in its public statements ...
Anyone want to guess how long this latest “cease-fire” agreement will last? Georgia president signs cease-fire with Russia. TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said Friday he signed a cease-fire agreement with Russia, which protects the former Soviet republic’s interests despite concessions to Moscow. He said he ...
Russia’s foreign minister said today, “the world can forget about Georgia’s territorial integrity.”
Fox News reporters on the ground in Georgia are now saying that Russian troops are moving in on Tbilisi (Steve Harrigan said Russian forces were at one point within 12 miles of the city), and that Abkhazia is under the control of Russian-backed separatists.
Several news organizations have reported that the Russian military is now within minutes of the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is giving a press briefing...
President Bush is sending US aircraft and Navy vessels to Georgia, to provide humanitarian aid. U.S. President George W. Bush said he is concerned by reports that Russia isn’t living up a provisional cease-fire in Georgia, warning that the Kremlin is putting its relations with the U.S. and Europe ...
Max Boot’s op-ed on the situation in Georgia: Stand up to Russia. It took the Red Army — excuse me, the Russian army — only two days to secure Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Now Russia is pressing its attacks into the heart of Georgia, threatening to cut the major ...
Here is President Bush’s latest statement on the Situation in Georgia. THE PRESIDENT: I just met with my national security team to discuss the situation in Georgia. I am deeply concerned by reports that Russian troops have moved beyond the zone of conflict, attacked the Georgian town of Gori, and ...
The Russians are obviously not interested in a truce. OUTSIDE GORI, Georgia (AP) — Russian troops and paramilitaries thrust deep into Georgia on Wednesday, rolling into the strategic city of Gori and violating the truce designed to end the six-day war that has uprooted 100,000 people and scarred the ...
Earlier today I linked to this highly deceptive post at the anti-evolution Discovery Institute’s "Russia Blog," purporting to lay out a timeline for Russia’s brutal attack on Georgia. (I commented that it read like propaganda directly from the Kremlin.) The Russia Blog titled their post, "Chronology Matters." And they're quite ...
LGF, Russia, Georgia, South Ossetia, discovery institute, Russia Blog, Yuri Mamchur, La Russophobe
An astoundingly bone-headed statement from Barack Obama today, as he calls for the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Georgia. Memo to the Obama campaign: Russia has veto power in the United Nations Security Council. Oops!
LGF, Russia, Georgia, South Ossetia, Barack Obama, United Nations
President Bush is now making a statement on the Russian invasion of Georgia... UPDATE at 8/11/08 2:26:28 pm: Well, that was nothing if not brief. A quote: “It is time for Russia to be true to its word, and to act to end this crisis.” No action proposed.
Here’s a press release from the United States Ambassador to the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, on a disturbing statement by Russian foreign minister Lavrov that reveals Russia’s true endgame in the Georgia conflict: Remarks by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Permanent Representative, on the situation in Georgia. I want to focus ...
Anne Applebaum has an interesting column on the situation in Georgia: A Threat Explodes In Georgia. Both sides have deeper motives for fighting. The Russians want to prevent Georgia from joining NATO, as Georgia, a Western-oriented democracy — George Bush has called the country a “ beacon of liberty” ...
A very dangerous situation is getting worse, as the Russian military moves into Georgia from the west while Georgian forces are engaged in South Ossetia. TBILISI, Georgia - Russia opened a second front of fighting in Georgia on Monday, sending armored vehicles beyond two breakaway provinces and seizing ...
The Russian military has forced Georgian troops to retreat from South Ossetia. GORI, Georgia - Georgian troops retreated from the breakaway province of South Ossetia on Sunday as their U.S.-allied government ordered a cease-fire and pressed for a truce, overwhelmed by Russian firepower in a conflict that threatened to ...